The Role of Social Media in Contemporary Democracy: A Comparative Study of Apc and PDP Campaigns During the 2015 and 2019 General Elections in Nigeria
Abstract:The study focuses on the use of social media in the 2015/2019 general elections in Nigeria. The study focuses on how the PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) and APC (All Progressive Congress) made use of social media in political mobilization, political communication and spreading information in the two general elections. In the course of the study, several literatures and researches about the elections and use of social media in Nigeria were studied to get different perspectives of how the political parties made u… Show more
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